Quoting Holp, John Mr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> ls -li vmlinuz while at / (root)
> I get the following
>
> 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 18 08:05
^
a hard link would increase this number...
> vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
> To me this means that vmlinuz is a soft link pointing to
> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
> But when I do a ls -li /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 I get the following
>
> 12 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1042807 Jan 18 08:05
^
... and this number.
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
>
> Here is my confusion, I thought only hard links used the same inode
> number? Note that both are using inode 12.
Are they on different filesystems? Inode numbers are only unique
to each filesystem.
$ ls -lid /lost+found/ /usr/lost+found/ /var/lost+found/ /tmp/lost+found/
/home/lost+found/
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 5 1999 /home/lost+found/
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 25 2000 /lost+found/
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 25 2000 /tmp/lost+found/
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 25 2000 /usr/lost+found/
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 25 2000 /var/lost+found/
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